Meet The Press

LG David Paterson, who always enjoyed a fairly congenial relationship with the press as Senate minority leader, is seeking to continue that bonhomie in his new post by hosting an off-the-recordÂ “light lunch” for reporters in his state Capitol office at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow.

This is a fairly standard practice. The current and former governors both held holiday get-togethers with members of the media, (at the mansion forÂ former Gov. George Pataki,Â in the AG’s office for Spitzer), as did Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno,Â R-Brunswick. Â

The event will also be the official debut of Paterson’s new press secretary, Maritere Arce, who worked in the NYC press office of Gov. Eliot Spitzer when he was AG.